Package-tie



'W. C. EVERITT.

PACKAGE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED AU |G.!0. l9l5.

1,3 1 1 ,764, Patented July 2-9, 1919.

N STATES PATENT OFFIQE- 7 WILLARD c. EVERITT, or KNOXVILLE, EN SYLVANIA. l

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To all iukoim it may concern: v

Be 'it known that I,.WII.LA1inC.'Evnn1TT, a cltizen of the United States, residing at Knoxville, in the county of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Package-Ties: and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will "enable others. skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same. This invention has for its primary'object to provide a package tie designed for securelybindingpackages and the like which shall be of simple and inexpensive construction and extremely easy to apply to use.

Another object is the provision of a package tie including means whereby the free end portion of the cord, or other binder, may be quickly and easily knotted to secure, it in adjusted position.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and formation of parts as will be hereinafter specifically described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 represents a plan view of the package tie applied to use.

Fig. 2 represents a detail perspective view of the tie removed.

Fig. 3 represents an enlarged detail sectional view illustrating the manner of knotting the cord to one end of the tie, and

Fig. 4 represents a fragmental plan view of one end of the tie, illustrating the manner of looping the cord so as to secure it in position upon the tie.

Referring to the drawing in detail, wherein similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral 5 indicates the shank of the improved tie, which is preferably formed of a piece of resilient wire. The shank 5 is turned back at one end, as at 6, to provide a hook, and the adjacent portion of the wire is doubled, as at 7, and extended laterally to provide a lateral extension 8. The free end of the extension 8 is looped to provide an eye 9 designed to receive the knotted end of the flexible cord. 10.

The portion of the shank 5 opposite the hook 6 is bent back upon itself or doubled and the doubled portion is bent to define a hook 11. The free end 12 of the shank 5 extends a distance inwardly of the beak of Sp fi i n -e e a Patented July 29, 19 19. Application filed August 10, 1915. SeriarN'o. 44,768. i

the hook 11 and isdeflected upwardly from the shank to provide a cord-receiving throat 13. The .defiectedend portion 12 of the shank eonstitutesa clip designed to cooperate with the hook 11in fastening thefree end portion 14; of the flexible cord sition about a package 15.

In use, the tie is placed centrally upon the top'of'the package 15, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1, and the cord 10 is looped transversely around the package, positioned in the hook 6, thence looped longitudinally about the package. The 'freeen'd 14 of the cord is looped about the hook 11, as illus- 10 in p0 tratedat A, Fig. 4, andis pulled so asto draw the cord tightly about the package 15. The free end fof the cord is subsequently slipped into position between the clip 12 and the shank 5 and next pulled outwardly or away from the hook 6 to form a knot,-"a's clearly illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, which firmly secures the free end portion of the cord in position upon the tie and package.

Inasmuch as one of the hooks is situated at the apex of the angle formed by the two arts of the device, and inasmuch as both ooks are directed toward each other and are situated in the same plane, there is no possibility of the tie being deformed by the oppositely directed operating strains as is the case in such previous devices of the kind where the wire is bent for instance into quadrangular form or is bent into a slidable loop intermediate its end, the strain exerted for instance at an angle to the device at the point of attachment of the flexible cord be- 1ng counterbalanced by the oppositely acting component of the strain which is exerted by the part of the cord engaged with the hook at the apex, while the other component thereof is counterbalanced by the strain exerted in the other oppositely directed hook, so as to produce a thoroughly balanced comparatively rigid and undeformable yet comparatively resilient contrivance.

What I claim is:

1. A package tie or clasp made of wire and having one end part directed sidewise and carrying an eye at the terminal of said part, hooks at the remaining straight part in the same plane with each other and with said part, and directed toward each other, the free end of said straight part beyond the hooks being substantially parallel to said gtraight part and at a slight distance there- 2. package tie or clasp consisting oraslngle continuous piece of wire, one end part of said wire being arrestedkside'wise anal having an eye at its terminal, hooks on the remaining straight part of the wire fifit'er mediate its ends and in the same plane with eadh other and with "straight part -a'n'd directed toward each othe1:,.the other terminal of the wire being sdbstantiall1arallel to .the .straight giant and :to the -'a joining hook. V V v 3. A package tie comprising .a wire bent s'o-as to ,form an angle, eordesecuring means at the free vend of one of the degs of said angle, ahookat stheapex of .the angle and in the plane of the other leg of the angle, another hook on said legat a distance from the firsbmentioned hook and in ,the same plane thereof and directed'itowand said firstmentioned hook, the free send of the hookcontaining leg of the "angle bein'gp'sulbsta'ntia'lly parallel to the shook and to said leg 7 and-"slightly spaced zfirom thehook-and the leg.

4. A package itiepcompliising,a straight V pieceiof wire bent intermediate its ends so as to form {two .ihooks directed toward each other and arranged in the sameplane, one of "the end pieces of the wire beyond the hooks being laitiral l y olfset fr'orn one of said hooks and provided with cord-securing means, the

free end being spaced from and substantially parallel to its adjoining hook and to= fihe"wir e and having its terminal some- What inclined- 4 v '5. A'packa'ge tile or clasp comprising a straight piece of wire bent intermediate its ends so-' as tov form :two, Ihooks ,Jdirected $130- ward each other and in the same plane with each -other and with ,the wire, one of the end pieces ,ofathe wire beyond the chooks being laterally oflset from one of said hooks and I provided with cord-securing means, the otherffree end pieceofthe wire being spaced fromaand snbstantially parallel to the wire and';to its adjoining hookand extending beyond the beak of s'aid hook p In testimony whereof l :aflix V any signature in presence ,of :two :wltnesses.

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